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OCBE develops statistical, machine learning and epidemiological methods to progress science and contribute to a better health @uio.no and Oslo University Hospital www.med.uio.no/imb/english/research…

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Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Two new posts from OCBE's Matteo D'Alessandro on the newsletter approfondiMente: Freedom and community: two weights on the scales. and What will the economy be like in 2030? approfondimente.substack.com/p/liberta-e-... approfondimente.substack.com/p/come-sara-...
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Libertà e comunità: due pesi sulla bilancia
Come possiamo equilibrare il bisogno di comunità, con i vincoli che il condividere ci impone?
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psychometrics, qu'est-ce que c'est? @owenmtthomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New post from The Oslo Dispatch! Do good books make good film adaptations? I statistically compare ratings between Goodreads and Letterboxd to find out. owenthomas.no/theoslodispa...
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Tommi Mäklin @themaklin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've been working on processing pseudoalignments from different tools to make downstream methods agnostic to the pseudoaligner choice, give it a try if you use themisto / fulgor / etc: docs.rs/ahda Also provides compression, conversion, and set operations.
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ahda - Rust
ahda is a library and a command-line client for:
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Brooke Wolford, PhD @bnwolford.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m really honored and excited to serve the ASHG membership on the Board of Directors next year!
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Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
OCBE's Are Hugo Pripp is organising a Nordic workshop on AI in statistical advising and analysis on 15 September, i.e. next Tuesday. Look forward to an exciting day full of interesting discussion! www.med.uio.no/imb/english/...
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Nordic workshop on AI in statistical advising and analysis - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences
A seminar and workshop on how AI will impact teaching statistics, advising and research methodological in medicine. It is financially supported by incentive funding from Oslo University Hospital.
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Ove Øyås 🇺🇦 @oveoyas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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The evolution of standards in systems biology: From metabolic and multi-scale to whole-cell models
The branches of systems biology focusing on mechanistic modeling have worked on standardizing data formats and vocabularies for well over two decades,…
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Gerry Tonkin-Hill @gerrythill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Glad to share StrainSpy, a new method developed by Sudaraka and co which identifies strain-level associations in metagenomics using ANI estimates from tools like Sylph. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Accurate detection of metagenomic strain-level associations using average nucleotide identity with StrainSpy
Genetic variation among microbial strains of the same species can profoundly influence their phenotypes, ecological functions, and impacts on human health. Traditionally, the relative abundance of a s...
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psychometrics, qu'est-ce que c'est? @owenmtthomas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What can cultural responses to nuclear warfare tell us about how to handle upcoming climate and AI crises? I dwell on that question here, with chief reference to Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker and Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, mon Amour. owenthomas.no/theoslodispa...
Film poster for "Hiroshima, mon Amour".
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Ove Øyås 🇺🇦 @oveoyas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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MetaCAT enables reconstruction of high-quality microbial genomes and their association with host traits from metagenomic data - Nature Microbiology
MetaCAT is a computational framework to assess host–microbiome interaction via a combination of high-accuracy and efficient microbial genome reconstruction and metagenome-wide association studies with...
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Stortinget @stortinget.no · 28/08/2026
Stortinget har med sorg mottatt budskapet om at Hans Majestet Kong Harald V har gått bort. – Vi har mistet vår folkekjære konge, og hele nasjonen er i sorg. Kong Harald regjerte i tråd med valgspråket «Alt for Norge», sier stortingspresident Masud Gharahkhani.
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Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
OCBE's Matteo D’Alessandro discusses Max Fisher's "The Chaos Machine", which some of our members have read together this year in our departmental book club. approfondimente.substack.com/p/adc-la-mac...
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AdC: La Macchina del Caos
Gli algoritmi social e la psiche umana interagiscono in modo deleterio, e le ripercussioni si manifestano nel sistema democratico.
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psychometrics, qu'est-ce que c'est? @owenmtthomas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The second issue of The Oslo Dispatch answers the question: What is the probability of finding a short text randomly embedded within a longer one? Available now here: owenthomas.no/theoslodispa...
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Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Woohoo! 🎉 Very proud of our colleague Jukka Corander at OCBE – Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, who won his third major individual ERC Grant in June. The project is - fittingly - called ACES. Huge congratulations to Jukka and his research group! 👏 👏 👏 www.med.uio.no/imb/english/...
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Receives 28 million to research antibiotic resistance in E. coli - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences
Antibiotic resistance is considered one of the ten greatest global health challenges. Jukka Corander is awarded NOK 28 million to continue investigating how strains of E. coli bacteria compete with on...
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Leiv Rønneberg @ltronneberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Excited about this new pre-print with colleagues in Oslo, providing 'posterior'-type uncertainty for kernel density estimators via the Martingale posterior framework.
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psychometrics, qu'est-ce que c'est? @owenmtthomas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Newsletter launched! Fortnightly dispatches on statistics/literature/etc. Available at my website owenthomas.no and directly through subscribing! Inaugural post dissecting sketchy quantitative film criticism. owenthomas.no/theoslodispa...
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F/X Scorn: Do Larger Budget Films Have Worse Ratings? — Owen Thomas
David Foster Wallace’s reactionary Gen X film criticism doesn’t stand up to quantitative analysis.
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Rebecca A. Gladstone @becctococcus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
EC-K-Typing v4.0.0 is out! 🧬 The E. coli group 2/3 capsule database now includes 109 K-loci (up from 90), updated phenotype assignments, curated annotations, provenance docs, and a reproducible private-DB builder. github.com/rgladstone/E...
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Release EC-K-Typing database v4.0.0 · rgladstone/EC-K-typing
EC-K-Typing database v4.0.0 This release expands the group 2 and group 3 reference database from 90 to 109 K-locus records. Database changes Added 16 sequence-defined loci assigned EC-K-Typing ide...
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Ove Øyås 🇺🇦 @oveoyas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Getting over ANOVA: estimation graphics for multi-group comparisons - Nature Methods
Nature Methods - Getting over ANOVA: estimation graphics for multi-group comparisons
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Ove Øyås 🇺🇦 @oveoyas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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The MiDAS global genome catalog: 53,501 long-read MAGs representing all core prokaryotic genera in the global activated sludge microbiome
Wastewater treatment relies on complex microbial communities, yet existing genome-resolved references for this essential engineered ecosystem remain dominated by short-read assemblies, limiting genome...
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Very happy to announce this upcoming course in Applied Meta-Analysis in R, to be held at OCBE by visiting lecturer Dr Maria Giovanna Scarale (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University)! @achaimani.bsky.social @ocbe.bsky.social www.med.uio.no/imb/english/...
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Applied Meta-Analysis in R - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences
We are happy to announce this 5-day intensive course in Applied Meta-Analysis in R, held by visiting researcher Dr Maria Giovanna Scarale. The course is aimed at biomedical researchers and PhD candida...
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Andrew Morris @ahmorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Now accepting workshop proposals for Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week 2025, hosted by @uio.no Dec 8–12, 2025. Explore last year's program: www.mn.uio.no/bils/english.... Submit your proposal here: nettskjema.no/a/539526 Supported by @uio.no, UiO: Life Science, @ncmbm.bsky.social, @ocbe.bsky.social
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Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week 2024 - Bioinformatics in Life Science – BiLS
December 9th-13th 2024 will see the third edition of the Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week at the University of Oslo, Norway. This event is organised by the Student Committee of the Centre for Bioinfo...
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Kate will also be a lecturer at the upcoming PhD summer school PrefStat in Oslo next week. @valeriavitelli.bsky.social www.integreat.no/events/publi...
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PrefStat 2025: Preference Statistics summer school in Oslo - Integreat
As part of the PrefStat summer school, Integreat organises 2nd International Summer School on Preference Learning at the University of Oslo. Registration deadline: 2 June 2025 (early bird 30 April)
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Wonderful Kate Lee (profiles.auckland.ac.nz/kate-lee) presenting our last OCBE Biostatistical Seminar this semester right now about Generalised Bayesian Inference and how to do more robist inference with model specifications. @ocbe.bsky.social www.med.uio.no/imb/english/...
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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The nice weather continues in Oslo - today is the traditional summer party in the research group for occupational/environmental epidemiology Cancer Registry of Norway @ocbe.bsky.social
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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Last Epistat group meeting before summer - outdoors! @ocbe.bsky.social
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Huge congratulations, Arnoldo @frigessi.bsky.social! Absolutely great that statistics is so much at the centre of AI research in Norway, already now with Integreat and now even more. Looking forward for our @ocbe.bsky.social to participate in this adventure. 😊 www.titan.uio.no/teknologi/20...
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KI-milliarden er delt ut. Arnoldo Frigessis TRUST får 200 millioner kroner - Titan.uio.no
Statsminister Jonas Gahr Støre delte ut 1,2 milliarder kroner til seks forskningssentre. To av sentrene skal ledes fra Universitetet i Oslo.
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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Jessica Calland @jesscalland.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Overjoyed to have received one of the FRIPRO Young Talent grants from the Norwegian research council to investigate the effects of hospitalisation on Klebsiella colonisation! 🎉🥳 www.med.uio.no/imb/om/aktue...
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Tildelt ti millioner for å forske på Klebsiella - Institutt for medisinske basalfag
Bakterien Klebsiella kan gi lungebetennelse og blodforgiftning, og mange får den mens de er innlagt på sykehus. Nå får Jessica Calland ti millioner fra NFRs FRIPRO for å forske på den lumske bakterien...
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is already the second such grant this year (both from Jukka Corander’s group), and the third FRIPRO grant in 2025. 3 out of 3 for @ocbe.bsky.social ! 😊
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Congratulations to our own fantastic Jessica Calland @ocbe.bsky.social for receiving the prestigious FRIPRO Young Talents grant from the Norwegian Research Council! 🎉 She will continue her work identifying drivers of Klebsiella colonisation in critically ill patients. www.med.uio.no/imb/om/aktue...
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Tildelt ti millioner for å forske på Klebsiella - Institutt for medisinske basalfag
Bakterien Klebsiella kan gi lungebetennelse og blodforgiftning, og mange får den mens de er innlagt på sykehus. Nå får Jessica Calland ti millioner fra NFRs FRIPRO for å forske på den lumske bakterien...
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Thanks for a fantastic first day at www.nbbc2025.com here in Oslo organised by my wonderful colleagues @ocbe.bsky.social! Great talks, interesting chats during breaks and wonderful to catch up with old friends and new contacts! Looking forward to tomorrow!
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Nordic-Baltic Biometric Conference 2025 (NBBC 2025)
The Nordic-Baltic Region of the International Biometric Society welcomes you to the 10th Nordic-Baltic Biometric Conference!  The conference will take place June 10-12, 2025, at the University of Oslo...
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Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Don’t miss the May OCBE newsletter with publications about physical activity and cancer, results of rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials and much more www.med.uio.no/imb/english/...
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OCBE newsletter, May 2025 - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences
This month we showcase recent publications on physical activity in cancer patients, results of rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials and much more.
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Valeria Vitelli @valeriavitelli.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
JOBS ALERT! PhD position & 3-y postdoc position in statistics within my research group at @ocbe.bsky.social @uio.no Both are linked to a project funded from the Research Council of Norway on Integrative Bayesian clustering for high-dim data in omics Deadline: 13 June 2025 More info & links below!
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Only 4 days left to the deadline: Become our new colleague as associate professor in biostatistical machine learning at Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social and our Centre of Knowledge-driven Machine Learning Integreat! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo
Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025
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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Join us in beautiful Oslo! Associate Professor @ocbe.bsky.social @uio.no Deadline May 18th www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo
Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Tomorrow last day for early-bird registration to PrefStat 2025, 2nd International Summer School on Preference Learning for Ranking and Ordinal Data (www.prefstat.org)! In Oslo, 30.06 – 04.07. Register here: www.integreat.no/events/publi... @valeriavitelli.bsky.social @ocbe.bsky.social @uio.no
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Find out about new publications from my fantastic colleagues in our new @ocbe.bsky.social newsletter! And follow us all by following our starter pack: go.bsky.app/6bqMnLQ
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Jon Michael Gran @jmgran.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Open permanent position as researcher in causal inference for infectious diseases at the Norwegian Institute for Public Health! Deadline May 16. www.finn.no/job/fulltime...
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Researcher with statistical competence in causal inference for infectious disease | FINN.no
The Section for Modelling and Bioinformatics, in the Department of Method Development and Analytics, is recruiting a researcher for a permanent position. In
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Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We have started a new monthly newsletter, the OCBE newsletter!!! where will be showcasing our recent publications and other relevant news. Check out the first edition here: www.med.uio.no/imb/english/...
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OCBE newsletter, April 2025 - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences
Welcome to the OCBE newsletter! This month we showcase our recent publications on environmental exposures and cancer risk, drug repurposing, bacterial DNA sequencing and much more.
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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
On my way to @princetonupress.bsky.social to speak in a workshop on Machine learning for Clinical Research hosted by Olga Troyanskaya and Vessela Kristensen at Princeton Precision Health pph.princeton.edu/events/2025/... pph.princeton.edu/events/2025/... @ocbe.bsky.social
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Machine Learning In Clinical Research Workshop - Day 2
PPH Visiting Faculty Scholar Vessela Kristensen is hosting a workshop on Machine Learning in Clinical Research on Thursday, April 10 and Friday, April 11, in Carl Icahn Lab and at 252 Nassau Street. F...
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 04/04/2025
🏹 Job alert: Associate Professor in Machine Learning for Biomedical Application The @ocbe.bsky.social seeks experts in statistical machine learning with a strong interest in medical applications. This is a permanent, tenured position. 📍 Oslo 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... ➡️ by May 18
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Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo
Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025
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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I am very excited to start my new roles as associate professor @uio.no @ocbe.bsky.social and group leader at the Oslo University Hospital (Departmemt of Medical Genetics). This would have not been possible without the support and help of all my mentors, colleagues and collaborators. Thank you all!
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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
3-year PhD position @ocbe.bsky.social in beautiful Oslo. We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate interested in statistial applications and occupational epidemiological research Join our team! Deadline: April 21 More information: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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PhD Research Fellow in Epidemiology (278150) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Epidemiology (278150), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, April 21, 2025
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is interesting! @ocbe.bsky.social
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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A Bayesian Belief Network model to predict CVD in subjects with T1D, from our Horizon 2020 collaboration Ornella Moro Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research UiT The Arctic University of Norway @ocbe.bsky.social IUIBS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A Bayesian Belief Network model for the estimation of risk of cardiovascular events in subjects with type 1 diabetes
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) represent a major risk for people with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Our aim here is to develop a new methodology that overcom…
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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
What is the difference between PINNs, Universal PINNs, Neural Differential Equations (DEs) and Universal DEs? Don’t miss this blog post that I wrote with a bunch of amazing colleagues from a #MechanisticLearning workshop in Canada mathematical-oncology.org/blog/learnin... @ocbe.bsky.social
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Learning Dynamics with Neural Networks
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
My fantastic colleagues! 💪 @ocbe.bsky.social reseacher Niki Marjerrison is studying cancer risks for firemen.
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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Kreftregisteret @ocbe.bsky.social www.med.uio.no/imb/english/...
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Do firefighters get prostate cancer because of their work? - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences
When it comes to lung cancer, we know of more than 30 substances that are carcinogenic. But when researchers began investigating why there is a higher incidence of prostate cancer in firefighters, the...
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Welcome to BlueSky from @ocbe.bsky.social ! 📊🧬🧑‍💻
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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Come join us at @ocbe.bsky.social in beautiful Oslo!
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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Important meeting today discussing the continued increase in melanoma incidence & sun safety - general population & outdoor workers Norwegian Cancer Society Cancer Registry of Norway DSA STAMI OUS @ocbe.bsky.social
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